What is planning, why you need to plan, 5 Good Reasons
Planning is, perhaps, the most important project management and time management technique. It's just preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve one specific goal. If you do it effectively, you can reduce much the necessary time and effort of achieving the goal. A plan is like a map. Only when following a plan, one can see how much progress towards the goal has been achieved and how far we're from destination. Knowing where we're is essential for making good decisions on where to go or what to do next. One more reason why we need planning is again the 80/20 Rule. It is well established fact that for unstructured activities 80% of the effort give less than 20% of the valuable outcome. We either spend much time on deciding what to do next, or we're taking many unnecessary, unfocused, and inefficient steps. Planning is also crucial for meeting our needs during each action step with our time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. It is much easier to adjust your plan to avoid or smoothen a coming crisis, rather than to deal with the crisis when it comes unexpected.
We do have hard-working people putting their best efforts into areas that have little to no effect on strategic success. They’re essentially majoring in the minors—because their activities aren’t aligned with the priorities. We must set direction and priorities, first; Next get everyone on the same page; Priorities make it easier to say no to distracting initiatives. Once you recognize the need to plan, we've the role of becoming the catalyst: for facilitating the buy-in and commitment of our leadership team and the rest of the organization. For a nation it's much more important. Let’s get started.
Planning is, perhaps, the most important project management and time management technique. It's just preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve one specific goal. If you do it effectively, you can reduce much the necessary time and effort of achieving the goal. A plan is like a map. Only when following a plan, one can see how much progress towards the goal has been achieved and how far we're from destination. Knowing where we're is essential for making good decisions on where to go or what to do next. One more reason why we need planning is again the 80/20 Rule. It is well established fact that for unstructured activities 80% of the effort give less than 20% of the valuable outcome. We either spend much time on deciding what to do next, or we're taking many unnecessary, unfocused, and inefficient steps. Planning is also crucial for meeting our needs during each action step with our time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. It is much easier to adjust your plan to avoid or smoothen a coming crisis, rather than to deal with the crisis when it comes unexpected.
We do have hard-working people putting their best efforts into areas that have little to no effect on strategic success. They’re essentially majoring in the minors—because their activities aren’t aligned with the priorities. We must set direction and priorities, first; Next get everyone on the same page; Priorities make it easier to say no to distracting initiatives. Once you recognize the need to plan, we've the role of becoming the catalyst: for facilitating the buy-in and commitment of our leadership team and the rest of the organization. For a nation it's much more important. Let’s get started.
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